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Come Walk in My Moccasins Newsletter
October 2021
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In this Issue:
Books: Peekaboo! Nanuq and Nuka Look for Colours, Meeka Loves Nature, I'm Finding My Talk, My Heart is a Chainsaw Our Music: Bizhishigokogane Niimi Our Words: Apakwaanaajii, apakwaanaajii, who do you see?
Our Stories: Hányo Tewayenthwá:ko (Let's Harvest) Our Traditions: Indigenous Seed Rematriation Recipe: Wild Rice & Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash |
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| Did you know…
Regalia is a very special part of Indigenous culture and should never be considered a costume? Regalia is what an Indigenous dancer wears during traditional dances — like at a powwow. A costume is something you wear when you dress up and pretend to be someone or something else — like for Halloween.
Regalia is colourful and differs depending on the type of dance. Regalia is unique to each dancer. There are different kinds of regalia and many parts to each outfit. Regalia represents not only the dancer’s personality, but their history, family and culture as well.
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Peekaboo! Nanuq and Nuka Look for Colours
Infant and Toddler
Can you help Nanuq and Nuka look for colours?
In this interactive book, Nanuq and Nuka explore the world around them and look for different colours. Children can pull up the flap and find the hidden colours! Bilingual Inuktitut and English Edition. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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Meeka Loves Nature
Preschool and Kindergarten
There are so many plants to discover in the North! Join Meeka as she explores the tundra to find all sorts of plants, from Arctic cotton to purple saxifrage and everything in between. What blooming, growing greenery will she discover next? (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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I'm Finding My Talk
Primary
I'm Finding My Talk by Rebecca Thomas (Mi’kmaw) is a response poem to I Lost My Talk, which is one of Rita Joe's most influential poems and tells this Mi'kmaw Elder's story of losing her Mi’kmaw language while at residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The vivid and colour illustrations are by Mi'kmaw artist Pauline Young and compliment the poem beautifully again. In, I'm Finding My Talk, the poem takes the reader back to Shubenacadie to begin the journey of finding words, stories, family, friends and loving relationships, moccasins, regalia, and much more as language is re-learnt and re-spoken. (excerpt from Goodminds.com)
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My Heart is a Chainsaw
Adult
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.
Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph. (excerpt from Strongnations.com)
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| Bizhishigokogane Niimi
Sing along in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) with members of Kingston Indigenous Languages Nest to Bizhishigokogane Niimi - Skeleton Dancing. (1:56 minute video) |
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Apakwaanaajii, apakwaanaajii, who do you see?
Learn to say Halloween characters in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) with this fun story about Bat and his friends - "Bat, Bat, who do you see?" (1:28 minute video) |
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| Hányo Tewayenthwá:ko (Let's Harvest)
Enjoy this video story in Mohawk by Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na. Part of the "Enkwakaratónhahse" series of original Kanyen'kéha storybooks. Narrated by Kayenté:ri Emerald Lefort-Cummings. (2:23 minute video)
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Indigenous Seed Rematriation |
"In 2017, Rowen White, Seed Savers Exchange board chair and founder of the Indigenous Seed Keepers Network (ISKN), approached Seed Savers Exchange to participate in the ISKN Seed Rematriation program, an initiative of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Seed rematriation addresses the desire for Indigenous communities to actively reclaim their ancestral seeds and traditions. Seed Savers Exchange supports Indigenous communities by rematriating seeds in the collection to their cultures of origin, with which they can practice sustainable, sovereign, environmentally and socially responsible agriculture. In 2020, the North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research Education program funded through USDA-NIFA awarded a grant to Seed Savers Exchange to collaborate with three Indigenous farmers -- Jessika Greendeer (Dream of Wild Health), Rebecca Webster (Oneida Nation), and Shelley Buffalo (Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative) -- to rematriate seeds for their communities to grow and share."
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| Wild Rice & Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash
This delicious recipe is from the Canadian Diabetes Association Healthy Living Calendar. "The sweetness of the apple here complements the delicate flavors of squash, celery and thyme."
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Indigenous Language Resources |
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First Voices Kids
Interactive online resource for helping children learn words and phrases in 50 different Indigenous languages on Turtle Island!
Anishnaabemowin - Our Language Our Culture
Ojibwa language booklet
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Tsi Tyónnheht Onkwawén:na provides Mohawk language and culture programming at the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte). They run several programs, including Totáhne (At Grandma's House) for preschool children, Kawenna'ón:we Primary Immersion (K-4) and Shatiwennakará:tats, a year long program for Adults. |
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| Kingston Indigenous Language Nest invites you to engage in language revitalization with Dibajimowin: Urban Indigenous Languages Revitalization Project. The centerpiece of this website is a collection of thirty digital stories about culture and language made by community members. Each personal story shares insights into the barriers to language learning and cultural connection as well as the many ways we are resilient and relentless. For each story, we pulled out key themes to create new language learning resources such as vocabulary lessons, creative activities and cultural teachings. We have sorted the stories in different ways: by digital story, by language and by cultural teachings. Explore and Enjoy! |
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Free Anishinaabemowin printable resources, lesson plans, and videos to help learn the language |
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| Toronto Zoo- Turtle Island Conservation Toronto Zoo's Turtle Island Conservation programme (TIC) respectfully shares the hopes and goals of First Nation partners in our committment to the preservation of biodiversity. TIC partners with First Nation communities to preserve community knowledge and significant natural and cultural landscapes.
Resources available in Ojibwe and Mohawk. |
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Aanii.org Resource website for Anishinaabe culture, history and language |
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| Beauty in Movement: An Indigenous Guide to Physical Activity Pamphlet about the importance of physical activity and ideas to get children moving
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| Gathering Communities Making Connections A list of resources and services for people of Indigenous
Ancestry, and for those who work with them |
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Sources for Indigenous books:
Indigenous Book Lending:
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| | | Indigenous Strength, Kingston, ON Sunday, October 3 |
| | | Corn Husk Dolls with KILN, Kingston, ON Sunday, October 3 |
| | | Celebrating Indigenous Picture Books, ONLINE Tuesday, October 5 |
| | Cheri Maracle performs a Reading from Paddle Song, Peterborough, ON
Friday, October 8 |
| | | Honouring Our Traditional Foods, ONLINE Thursday, October 14 & Friday, October 15 |
| | | imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, ONLINE OCTOBER 19-24
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| | We need YOU!
Help us become more inclusive of the many First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples among our readership. Share an Indigenous recipe, song, or traditional art through Come Walk in My Moccasins. Contact aflccanada@gmail.com if you are interested in becoming a guest contributor.
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| Come Walk in My Moccasins is created by the Indigenous Family Literacy Circle and sponsored by Journey Together through Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte. |
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